Catholicism, freedom and the fate of health care reform

Catholicism, freedom and the fate of health care reform  MB: The degree to which individual freedom can be compelled by the majority depends upon the issue. Any legal compulsion by majority rule is to some extent an assault on the individual's freedom of choice.  On moral issues, such as drug abuse and the regulation of sexuality, such regulation requires impostion of a police state.  Economic regulation requires less police power - and because the individual and group mandates in health care reform utilize existing police power by imposing the mandate as a tax penalty, there is no increase in the police power at all to enforce this mandate, which is technically chosen by the majority of the society - through its surrogates in a system of representative government.  At some level, if mandates are a violation of freedom of choice, so is the entire system of representative decision making.  I suspect that many foes of mandates are really against the latter - and have no chance of achieving that result throught the Supreme Court.